History Main / FantasticTimeManagement

* In the "Heavy Meta" arc of ''Webcomic/TVTropesTheWebcomic'', the Troper Crue travels back in time ([[spoiler:six times]]) to rehearse their songs for a concert that takes place in less than a week.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', this is a [[TimeMaster Time player]]'s hat. [[StringyHairedGhostGirl Aradia]] [[MesACrowd assembles an army of alternate-timeline versions of herself]]. [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy Dave]] uses [[StableTimeLoop time loops]] to orchestrate a CompoundInterestTimeTravelGambit over a matter of linear ''hours'', then uses the same methods to [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower rapidly breed frogs]]. [[spoiler: [[BigBad Lord English]]]] uses it to [[ParanoiaFuel always be]] [[PhraseCatcher already here]].

** [[spoiler: Specifically, Muggle Studies, which is useless as she's a muggle-born, and Divination, which is taught by a quack.]]

* Shiki and Shirou attempt this in ''CarnivalPhantasm'', it starts going wrong right from the start and eventually (literally) blows up in their faces.

* In the season 1 finale of ''Series/RickAndMorty'', Rick throws a massively destructive party while Beth and Jerry are away, ending up with them storming in the sidewalk to flip out at him. To avoid upsetting them, he freezes time, allowing him, Morty, and Summer to clean up the house before Beth and Jerry reach the front door. In the season 2 premier, it's revealed that they kept time frozen for several months, apparently just to relax.

Characters are often pressed for time. Maybe they overbook themselves for a specific time period, or maybe they just have a very busy life general, what with having the WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld all the time. Perhaps they have a deadline that is just physically impossible to meet in the allotted time.

* Used surprisingly ''infrequently'' in ''Series/DoctorWho''. One notable exception is the episode "[[Recap/DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]", in which the Doctor has roughly an hour to save a crashing space ship. His solution takes ''years'' to execute.
** A variation appears in ''[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]'', in which a centuries-long calculation to disintegrate a door with the [[MagicWand sonic screwdriver]] is carried out instantly by having an earlier incarnation of the Doctor program it in and a later incarnation read out the result from a centuries-older version of the device. [[spoiler:The same technique is used on a larger scale to enable all the Doctor's incarnations working in concert to isolate Gallifrey from the timestream, removing it from the Time War without destroying it.]]

* Used in a farcical novel by Creator/HarryHarrison called ''Literature/TheTechnicolorTimeMachine'', where a desperate movie director, lacking a budget for a historical film about Vikings, hires a crackpot inventor, who actually builds a working time machine, to film the whole thing in the past, saving money on sets and actors. Since they have to deliver in a short time frame, they hire a scriptwriter and send him to an island in the past for a month to write the script. After a few such trips, they get the script and start filming, at which point they use the time machine to skip forward and back (setting up {{Stable Time Loop}}s). All nearly seems lost when the director is forced to go to his boss's office empty-handed, only for his future self to appear with the film all done and tell him to keep working (also giving him a piece of paper with a diagram of what to do to get to that point). In the end, the film is done and is a big hit, and the director realizes that [[spoiler:the Vikings only discovered the New World because a film director wanted to make a movie]].

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5639518/1/ The Harem War,]]'' Harry Potter uses special time turner to live every day 3 times. It specifically told that it doesn't cause him to age faster. Herminone (and later Narcissa) manages his schedule. He need this because he need to finish magical education, train to fly (as in 'muggle combat aircraft'), take his part in governing Duchess of Charenwell (foreign policy issues ARE Duke's responsibility and this includes dealing with Magical Britain) and there is small issue of his harem of 26 girls and it's expected that he WILL be sexually active with everybody except Gabriel Delacour. He don't wanted such large harem. Hermione don't wanted it too but alternatives were much worse.

* In an issue of ''LoveAndCapes'', superhero (and accountant) Crusader forgets to do his own taxes until 11:30 p.m. on April 15. He has to have them finished and in the mail by midnight. Even using his super-speed powers, he is unable to finish them until 2 a.m. the next day. This is no problem, since he lives in the Eastern time zone; He just flies at super speed to the west coast, and mails his taxes in before midnight Pacific time.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5537755/1/Amends-or-Truth-and-Reconciliation Amends, or Truth and Reconciliation],]'' Hermione's political enemies try to bury her in busywork and conflictingly scheduled meetings. It doesn't work. But somehow they never guess she has a time turner. She's experiencing about septuple time once the plot really gets moving.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5537755/1/Amends-or-Truth-and-Reconciliation Amends, or Truth and Reconciliation]]'', Hermione's political enemies try to bury her in busywork and conflictingly scheduled meetings. It doesn't work. But somehow they never guess she has a time turner. She's experiencing about septuple time once the plot really gets moving.

* ''Time Machine'' story "[[http://books.google.com/books?id=sHUp8snNE7YC&pg=PA8 The Time Machine Twins the Jamboree]]". Bob Tucker (who is a Boy Scout) needs to be at Jamboree West and Jamboree East, but they're being held at the same time. "Brains" Baines comes up with the idea of using the Time Machine to move him from one event to the other, and taking him to a deserted beach in the 40th century to sleep between appearances.

* A more "mundane" application than usual in ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonVsAceAttorney''. [[spoiler:In the game's world of Labyrinthia, magic is elaborately faked, and part of this trickery involves getting its effects to look instantaneous to observers. This is accomplished by the Shades ringing small silver bells to briefly dull their perception to the machines and props being implemented to create an instance of magic. It helps that technology at work in Labyrinthia is of the medieval period, preventing anyone from getting an accurate measure of how much time has passed.]]

* The ''DragonridersOfPern'' books have several examples of people using their dragons' time-jumping ability to do this.

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[[folder:Fan Fic]]
* In ''HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'', Harry has a 26-hour sleep schedule. Professor [=McGonagall=] solves this by giving him a Time-Turner. Harry is quite unnerved by this...

* In ''[[FanFic/TheDarknessSeries Harry Potter and The Breeding Darkness]]'' in order to attend school at Hogwarts, manage the Death Eaters, continue his independent studies, and spend time with Tom; Harry uses a Time Turner to live every day twice.
* In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5537755/1/Amends-or-Truth-and-Reconciliation Amends, or Truth and Reconciliation]], Hermione's political enemies try to bury her in busywork and conflictingly scheduled meetings. It doesn't work. But somehow they never guess she has a time turner. She's experiencing about septuple time once the plot really gets moving.

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[[folder:Film -- Live Action]]
* In ''[[Film/BillAndTed Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey]]'', Bill and Ted exploit their time machine to get a few extra years' guitar practice in before the Battle of the Bands. This despite the previous film having [[SanDimasTime explicitly established]] that this was impossible…
** [[FridgeLogic Obviously, they finally figured out they could just call a date that used to be a few years earlier, which would now have ''also'' moved forward to the correct date after they spent those few years learning to actually play well]]

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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''
** This is how Tezzeret solves the labyrinth in the novel ''Literature/TestOfMetal''. He harnesses Silas Renn's clockworking powers to explore every nook and cranny of the maze with an infinite number of alternate-timeline versions of himself.
** ''[[http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=96928 Quyzl was told by his mentor to "make more time" for his studies.]]''
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In the "Heavy Meta" arc of ''TVTropesTheWebcomic'', the Troper Crue travels back in time ([[spoiler:six times]]) to rehearse their songs for a concert that takes place in less than a week.
* One ''XKCD'' strip suggests getting some long monitor and keyboard cables, and putting the CPU of your computer in Narnia, while keeping the I/O parts in England. Since {{Narnia time}} goes really fast, you can now run through the entire SETI@Home database in an hour...

** In the Mahora Festival arc, Negi ends up majorly overbooking his schedule.[[note]](Being a NiceGuy and unable to say "no" to his UnwantedHarem.)[[/note]] He is given a TimeTravel device by Chao in order to allow him to meet all his commitments, time jumping three times on the first day alone. Of course, because this deprives him of sleep, he then ''also'' uses the aforementioned Evangeline's resort to be able to rest from all these activities.

* Used surprisingly ''infrequently'' in ''DoctorWho''. One notable exception is the episode "[[Recap/DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]", in which the Doctor has roughly an hour to save a crashing space ship. His solution takes ''years'' to execute.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', this is a [[TimeMaster Time player]]'s hat. [[StringyHairedGhostGirl Aradia]] [[MesACrowd assembles an army of alternate-timeline versions of herself]]. [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy Dave]] uses [[StableTimeLoop time loops]] to orchestrate a TimeTravelCompoundInterestGambit over a matter of linear ''hours'', then uses the same methods to [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower rapidly breed frogs]]. [[spoiler: [[BigBad Lord English]]]] uses it to [[ParanoiaFiel always be]] [[PhraseCatcher already here]].